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Title: American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Goode, G. Brown (George Brown), 1851-1896
Subjects: Fishes -- North America
Publisher: New York, Standard book company
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
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oast of Florida. In Pensacola Bay it is seen aboutthe piles of stone ballast that lie in shoal water, and also at sea on thefishing grounds n£ar the entrance. It also occurs in St. Andrews, St.Josephs, and Apalachicola Bay ; and to the southward, where there is moreor less rocky bottom, showing either in reefs or in channel-beds, it is foundin abundance. In the vicinity of St. Marks, Cedar Keys, and St. Mar-tins Reef are other prolific Bass reefs. It has only recently been found to occur north of Cape Cod. Previousto 1878, there were on record only four instances of its occurence east ofNantucket, but in the summer of 1878 several were taken in the Milk Is-land weir, off Gloucester. This weir, which lies on the Avest side of Milk * 5. furvus, the northern form, has the air bladder simple, and the pectoral as long as the ventral fin ; 5.atrarius, the southern form has the air bladder sacculated, and the pectoral longer than the ventral. IS cB po o ~ IK •I ^ •C -:O J* e s
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THE SEA BASSES. 41 Island, almost under the shadow of the twin lightdiouses of Thatchers Is-land, waylaid many southern species never before known to enter Massa-chusetts Bay, among them the kingfish and the Spanish mackerel. Atsome future time the Sea Bass may become abundant in these more north-erly waters. Like the scuppaug, the Spanish mackerel, and the bluefish,it was at one time almost unknown to New England. In the Catalogueof the Fishes of Connecticut, published in 1842 by Linsley, the species isdescribed as a great novelty. However strange to the people of Connecti-cut at this time, it is said by Storer to have been so abundant, between1850 and i860, that fifty or sixty vessels were accustomed to obtain fullfares in summer about the Vineyard Sound. This statement is probablysomewhat of an exaggeration. The Zee-Baars mentioned in the verse of Steendams poem, InPraise of New Netherland, which stands at the head of this chapter mayor may not have been Centropristis. Mr. Murphy,

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